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Thursday, July 21, 2016

The Reaper's Daughter by Anais Torres

Contrary to popular
belief, serial killers aren't usually loners. In fact, many of history's
most notorious murderers had spouses and children.

Eight-teen-year-old
Emma Wolf is haunted by the victims of her father's crimes. She
constantly feels like she’ll never be part of this world, but just a
spectator watching normal people go about their lives. She couldn't go
back and make amends for her father's crimes. She thought she had things
figured out: join a few good causes, be a good girl, eat all her
vegetables. Never lose control.

So when her aunt finds out she's
been invited to join the kid's from her local church for a week-long
trip to South Padre Island, she pushes Emma to go. Why else would she -
the most socially awkward, fact spewing outcast - spend the first week
of summer with a bunch of kids, who she has nothing in common with?

So much for not losing control.@goodreads

MY REVIEW:

4 STARS

All Emma Wolf wanted was to disappear. Wouldn't you if your father was The Oklahoma Reaper?

*When
Emma Wolf moved to Nevada to live with her aunt, she just wanted a
fresh start, a new place to live her own life. Somewhere people didn't
know who she was, what her past was like, or what her father had done.
At first if seemed almost impossible that she could ever escape such a
shadow. With social media at everyone's finger tips it didn't take much
for people to look her up, which is why she found the importance of
becoming invisible.*

Emma is just trying to make a new
life for herself living with her aunt. She has no friends at school
though. Emma thought she had a friend in a boy named Hayden until she
overheard him making fun of her. She decides to do good deeds to try to
make up for what she feels is bad DNA and to be invisible.

Emma
has so many thoughts, trying to figure out how her loving father could
be this horrid person. A psycho serial killer. How does this happen? Did
he ever really love me? It is really sickening to hear what her father
did, what he really was, I would freak clean out as well.

*She'd
been raped and mutilated while she was alive by what the police claimed
to be a reaping hook. Christy had been the first victim, but she was
just the third body found in what spiraled into a nightmare of chaos and
horrific murders for the state of Oklahoma. Each one more gutted than
the last and he'd gotten better with that reaping hook over time. His
last four victims were still unidentified.*

Emma's father killed 25 women. How do you get past that?

Emma's
aunt pushed Emma to go on a road trip with some kids from school, one
being Hayden. She decided to go. Hayden's father made him ask her to go.
There was Emma, Jackie, Alyssa, Hayden, Mitch and Charlie. Some of the
kids in the group were still trying to get over their own trauma of
being in a car accident where one of their friends died. But I will
leave that for you to read.

Emma is the outcast but on this
journey she finds herself and she actually finds some friends in people
she never expected to find.

I really enjoyed the book and going
through different emotions with Emma. I liked most of the characters, I
mean you have to have one mean girl and one boy trying to get with all
the girls. But sometimes if people open up and give themselves a chance,
they find out not everyone is what they seem on the outside.

*I received a print copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.*